No account. No phone number. Just talk.
Dissolve is a free, open-source chat app that doesn't give your data to corporations.
// HOW_IT_WORKS
No signup flow. No verification email. Just this:
Pick a handle
Choose a name. No email, no phone number, no verification.
Share it
Send your handle to a friend. They add you by name.
Start talking
Messages are encrypted end-to-end. The server never sees them.
// WHY_SWITCH
Why not just use...?
| Dissolve | Discord | Signal | iMessage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server retains messages | No | Yes | Yes | No** | Yes |
| Needs phone number | No | No | Yes | Yes | No* |
| Needs email | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Run your own server | Yes | No | No | No | No |
* iMessage requires an Apple ID (email) — still an identity you don't control.
** Signal queues encrypted messages temporarily until delivered, but does not retain them long-term.
4 billion messages scraped and sold in 2024. 70,000 users' government IDs leaked via a vendor breach. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Source
Fined over $5 billion by the FTC for deceiving users about privacy. Shares phone numbers, IPs, and profile data with Facebook for ad targeting. Source
Messages are encrypted — but iCloud backups aren't. Apple holds the key and hands them to law enforcement with a warrant. Source
Still requires your phone number to register. In 2022, a Twilio breach exposed ~1,900 Signal-linked phone numbers. Source
// DEEP_DIVE
Want the full picture? Here's how it works under the hood.
operate in the US alone, buying and selling personal data including message metadata, contact graphs, and behavioral profiles.
Major platforms receive hundreds of thousands of legal requests for user data annually. Most comply. Most users are never notified.
Even "encrypted" platforms log who you talk to, when, how often, and from where. Metadata alone rebuilds your entire social graph.
Your chat logs are permanent records stored on servers you don't control. They survive account deletion, company acquisitions, and breaches.
No accounts. No phone numbers.
Your identity is a cryptographic key pair stored on your device. No email, no phone, no server-side account. Nobody can recover it — and nobody can seize it.
The server is a dumb pipe.
It routes encrypted blobs. It never sees your messages, never stores keys, and can't impersonate anyone. You can even run your own.
You control who reaches you.
To message you, someone needs a token you gave them. Revoke any token instantly — cut off one sender without touching your inbox.
Group chat. Same zero trust.
Every group message gets its own encryption key. The server never knows a group exists. Same security as 1-to-1.
Open source. Fully auditable.
MIT licensed. Every line of code is public. Run your own relay if you don't trust ours. We built this because user security is in freefall and nobody seemed to care. We care.
// DOWNLOAD
Power to the user,
not the platform.
Free. No account. Takes 30 seconds.
Open beta — things may break. Ship fast, fix fast.
Open source — view on GitHub. Early adopters and contributors welcome.